DHUNDARI PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated 17-09-2020 Version Number 1.3
1. INTRODUCTION
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at our Dhundari. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@dhundari.org.in.
When you visit our website www.dhundari.org.in (hereinafter referred to as “Site”) and use our services and provide us with your personal information, we consider your privacy with utmost importance and do all that is required to protect the information you have provided us with. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek to explain to you in clear terms, what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our site and our services.
This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our websites (such as https://dhundari.org.in/), and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the "Sites").
Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us.
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? 2
Personal information you disclose to us 3
Information automatically collected 4
HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION? 4
WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? 7
DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES? 9
IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY? 9
WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES? 9
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION? 10
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? 10
DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS? 11
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? 11
DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY? 12
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY? 13
3. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Our website holds 3 types of data.
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Our website, including the technology, source code and related artefacts.
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Community data, contributed through voluntary participants and to be made publicly available.
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Personal information of each registered user, which is required to provide users with a verified and valid login access to the sites.
Our Website
In Short: The website includes the technology platform, source code, and other related artefacts.
Our website is a platform created to allow and enrich the community to contribute and cherish their rich culture. The platform includes the technology, source codes and other related artefacts used to create this website.
Community Data
In Short: Articles contributed voluntarily in the form of cultural information and language information.
The contributors to the website voluntarily provide us with articles, etc. in the form of 1) cultural information and 2) language information. These articles can contain any information in the form of text and/or multimedia that provides insight into the culture and language of the community.
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us such as name, address, contact information, passwords and security data.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering at the Sites or Apps, expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when participating in activities on the Sites (such as posting messages in our online forums or entering competitions, contests or giveaways) or otherwise contacting us.
Name and Contact Data. We collect your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and photographs and other similar contact data.
Credentials. We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our websites.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Sites. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Sites, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
We do not collect information through cookies and similar technologies, but some of the enabling technologies that we use, and provided by third-party services use them. We do not access or process the data, but the services offered by such technologies do use them.
4. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
Our Website
In Short: The website belongs to Nirmaan Society and it is used to enable the services provided, unauthorized copying is not permitted. The data (articles, content) belongs to the community and is the common property of the community.
Our website is a platform created to allow and enrich the community to contribute and cherish their rich culture. The platform, which includes the technology, source codes and other related artefacts used to create this website, is the property of Nirmaan Society.
Community Data
In Short: We provide promotion and publishing of the articles contributed to us through the site.
We provide a platform for the users of the community to contribute articles and multimedia content about their culture and language for the purpose of enriching the culture and language of the community, and as required, for compliance with our legal obligations. This content is published using our sites. We also promote the contents thus created for achieving the overall objective of developing the language and the community.
The content is owned by the contributor and not by Nirmaan Society. The review and publication of the content is also done by the members of the community and therefore all ownership of this data rests with the contributor and the community, and is available for public consumption, free of cost.
Personal Data
In Short: We process personal data collected through the site for validation and security, for giving recognition to contributors, for communication as and when required, and for promoting the contents created on the sites.
We use personal information collected via our Sites for a variety of non-profit purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate interests, in order to perform promotion of culture and language (“Promotion”) of the community, you ("voluntary"), with your full and conscious consent ("Consent"), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations ("Legal Reasons"). We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
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To facilitate account creation and logon process with your Consent. We use the information you allowed us to collect to facilitate account creation and logon process.
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To send you promotional communications for Promotion purposes, with your Consent. We and/or our third party partners WILL NOT use the personal information you send to us for any commercial purposes.
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To send administrative information to you for Promotion purposes, and/or Legal Reasons. We may use your personal information to send you Promotional information and/or new content information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
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To post testimonials with your Consent. We post testimonials on our Sites that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at info@dhundari.org.in and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
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Administer prize draws and competitions for our Promotion Purposes and/or with your Consent. We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in competitions.
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Request Feedback for our Promotion Purposes. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Sites.
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To protect our Sites for Promotion Purposes and/or Legal Reasons. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Sites safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
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To enable user-to-user communications for Promotion purposes. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications.
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To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for Promotion Purposes, and/or Legal Reasons.
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To respond to legal requests and prevent harm for Legal Reasons. If we receive a legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
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For other Promotion Purposes. We may use your information for other Promotion Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Sites, products, services, marketing and your experience.
5. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short: We only share (“Share”) information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfil our Promotion obligations.
We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:
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Compliance with Laws. We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
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Vital Interests and Legal Rights. We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
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Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Sites, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Sites over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyse and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information for commercial purposes.
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Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
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Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Sites. These companies may use information about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. (See our Cookie Policy in number 6 below (DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?)
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Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
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Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
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With your Consent. We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
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Other Users. When you share personal information (for example, by posting comments, contributions or other content to the Sites) or otherwise interact with public areas of the Site, such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Site in perpetuity. If you interact with other users of our Sites and register through a social network (such as Facebook), your contacts on the social network will see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you within our Sites, and view your profile.
6. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. We also employ third party tools and service to bring the technology services, who may also collect cookies and similar tracking technologies, these are used only to provide you with better service. Unless specifically included in this document, we do not use your information for any commercial purposes. The cookie policies of the respective companies will be applicable.
7. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.
Our servers may be located outside the country for technological or economic reasons. Please be aware that all data contributed to our Sites will therefore be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see "Share" above), in India and other countries. These countries may not have comprehensive data protection or other laws but we will take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy and applicable laws.
8. WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES?
In Short: We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third-party providers who are not affiliated with our websites.
The Sites does not contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us. However, in the process of accessing our website, if you enter your data into third party services, we will not be responsible for such data. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this privacy policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the Sites. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.
9. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
10. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Sites is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
11. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Sites, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Site. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at info@dhundari.org.in
13. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: India has recognized that privacy is part of the fundamental rights, but is still awaiting the Personal Data Protection Act.
Law is evolving to give you greater rights over your privacy. In some regions (like the European Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. The Personal Data Protection Act will clarify and define the specific rights you will have. These rights will be updated when the provision is enacted. If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you can refrain and stop using our services anytime. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing of the data given through your consent.
Account Information
You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
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Logging into your account settings and updating your account
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Contacting us using the contact information provided below
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites.
Opting out of email marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we will still need to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account. You can also opt-out by:
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Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with the Sites.
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Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences.
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Contacting us using the contact information provided below
13. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
14. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, email us at info@dhundari.org.in
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